what's the going rate for live out nanny of twins in London?

[FSB]

what would be a reasonable daily wage for a nanny for 18 month old twins? the spectrum seems to be very wide, so i was wondering if there was a standard benchmark?? thanks

Being twins makes no difference as a nanny is paid per family, not per child.

Calculate what you can afford to pay. Then offer a bit below that, thus giving you room to move upwards if a candidate wants more, and to take account of pay rises over the years.

If you can't afford to pay what someone wants, then it's a non-starter. Thus work out what you can afford to pay first. Then advertise to see if anyone is interested at that salary level.

Remember that you as the employer will want to agree a Gross salary. Nannies are now beginning to understand that but some still only understand Net, so when advertising give the Gross salary and give an indication of the Net salary based on a single persons typical taxcode.
calculator.kistax.com will show you the difference between Net and Gross.

We have had our nanny since the DT's were 6 months. They are now 3.5 and DD2 is 7 months.

She lives out (her choice), and comes from 10-6. two days a week, 7-4. two days a week and 12-6 one day a week, and is available for babysitting one or two nights a week, for which we pay her hourly. If we are planning on being back after 12 though she stays over and we pay her a flat fee.

I can't remember what we paid her when the DT's were 18 months, but before DD2 came along she got £170 a day, which we raised to £200 once I went back to part time work. This is fairly generous, but she is fab and has to travel from Wimbledon so we include her travel expenses in this. She gets 6 weeks paid holiday a year, but if we go on holiday and she has taken her 6 weeks she doesn't get paid.

Just realised this might not be very helpful....

Bambi, that at first sounds a high salary. But you needed someone able to do the varying hours, plus agree to a contract that has unusual terms regarding holiday entitlement. Thus resulting in the nanny not knowing how much they will earn in any given year.

FSB, I'd expect that a full time nanny, working fixed hours, would probably be in the £8-£14 region. It's a large range I'm afraid, and it could vary by £1 or so each side.

So as I said earlier, work out what salary you are prepared to offer, then see if you get any applicants.

Hi,

I am a young nanny (20) with four years experience looking after children without nanny qualifications and I look after twins, they were nearly eighteen months when I started and I get paid £10 net an hour.

I would say £10 net an hour would be the average.

The benchmarks are more to do with the nanny and the levels of experience/any qualifications they have than the job, which is why there's a huge range.

Anywhere between at £10-15 gross, expecting to pay towards the higher end, and I'd advertise it at £12-14 gross with £13 gross in mind for most candidates.

Am just about to hire a nanny for my dts too to help a couple of days a week. We are in the east midlands so is £8 per hour an ok rate do you think? I assume you have to pay more if you're in London?

£8 for the east midlands area is about average. Very experienced nannies will charge slightly more.

Is that £8 in the Midlands, Net or Gross?

Gross rate

Thanks EastMidlandsNanny. Good to know as I'm speaking to her tomorrow so at least I can talk money now with her.

Thanks guys, that's useful info

Bambi... Can I come and be your nanny?!!!

Of course you can FSB, if you live in NY that is!!

We are moving there in May and our current nanny doesn't want to come with us :( I know the DC's (as well as DH and I) will be so so sad to see her go, and I've got to start looking for another as well :o

OOHHH someone has almost same name on here as me!!

Rates will vary from £8-£15 gross an hr depending on nanny experience and qualifications

good luck with your search

Hi eastmidlandsnightnanny! I thought there wasn't many nannies in our area. Where abouts in the east midlands are you? Do you currently work as a nanny?